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Day of Tears

By Julius Lester

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Emma has taken care of the Butler children since Sarah and Frances's mother, Fanny, left. Emma wants to raise the girls to have good hearts, as a rift in morals has ripped the Butler household apart: Sarah and their mother oppose the inhumanity of slavery, while Frances and their father, Pierce, belContinue

Emma has taken care of the Butler children since Sarah and Frances's mother, Fanny, left. Emma wants to raise the girls to have good hearts, as a rift in morals has ripped the Butler household apart: Sarah and their mother oppose the inhumanity of slavery, while Frances and their father, Pierce, believe in the Southern lifestyle and treatment of blacks.

Now, to pay off mounting gambling debts, Pierce decides to cash in his "assets." He hosts the biggest slave auction in American history, at the price of his humanity. During these two days, the skies weep on the proceedings below, for although Butler promises Emma's parents not to sell her: money, desperation, and greed enable him to justify his any misdeed. Through flashbacks and flash-forwards, and shifting first-person points of view, readers will travel with Emma and others through time and place, and come to understand that every decision has its consequences, and final judgment is passed down not by man, but by his maker.

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  • Day of Tears By Julius Lester

    Again and again, in a prodigious and distinguished body of work, Julius Lester has addressed the great horror at the heart of the African-American experience: the inescapable legacy of slavery. His latest book, Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue, cent ... (read full critics)

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  • Nothing like anything I have read before. It was a very powerful look at life as a slave specifically as they got sold. I think it would be very interesting to see it done as a drama.

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 92 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0786804904
  • ISBN-13: 9780786804900
  • Publisher: Jump At The Sun
  • Pub date: Apr 13, 2005
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 903 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
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